Update-Finance-Quote dependancy of libwww-perl.

[Matthew Vanecek]

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On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 20:45, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Well, I was looking at it, but I can't reproduce the problem
> you claim to be having.  What exactly is the problem?  You click
> on the "Get Quotes" button on the "Price" dialog and it silently
> fails?
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> -derek

I think the issue was in the dependency on a possibly missing
libwww-perl, or something like that.  That's something that's best
handled at install time, though, by the package manager or the "make
install-er" person.  GnuCash can advertise its software requirements,
but it cannot be responsible for installing external programs.  However,
libwww-perl or whatever could be made a Requirement in the package
manager, except that some people may install it via CPAN, in which case
the package manager won't know about it...

Perhaps the requirement should just be listed in the "Software
Requirements" section in the README and on the Web site...

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> Decibels <decibelshelp@charter.net> writes:
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> > Haven't heard anymore on this. Can I assume that this issue will be
> > worked on and
> > drop the bug report at Gentoo?
> >=20
> >=20
> > Derek Atkins wrote:
> >=20
> > >Decibels <decibelshelp@charter.net> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > >>That sounds pretty reasonable to me, as long as you could get it from
> > >>the GnuCash site.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Of course you could get it from the gnucash site, right next to gnucas=
h-XX.rpm
> > >
> > >
> > >>The main program would still have to look for the new quotes package
> > >>to see if it's install(ed) each time it was started.
> > >>Or the install of gnucash-get-quotes package would have to set a flag
> > >>in the main program config to say it is installed
> > >>and show the button (Get Quotes) in the Price Editor then.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Don't worry about how that would work..
> > >
> > >
> > >>How bout instead of not showing the button (Get Quotes), have it
> > >>Greyed Out?  Not sure if that would cause
> > >>any less confusion, but it might let people know that the option
> > >>wasn't enabled, rather than having them think
> > >>the install failed.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Hmm, I suppose we could grey it out, but that would be more
> > >challening.  Plugging in new menu items is relatively easy.  Greying
> > >them out is more challenging.  I'll take a look.
> > >
> > >-derek
> > >
> > >
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>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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